from Seattle Times’ Danny Westneat: You know how the UW is turning away local valedictorians in favor of high-priced, out-of-state students, and everybody’s gone Husky purple with rage?
“This is an outrageous and egregious abuse of power,” read one of the 700-plus Web comments on an article about the UW’s policy last weekend.
“If my son and daughter, who have excellent grades, don’t get accepted to UW, in favor of out of state, legal and illegal aliens, a class-action lawsuit is the only way we can take our university back,” wrote another.
A father of a girl with a 3.8 GPA wrote to me: “Reading about the UW’s preference for out-of-state students made me very angry. How can our university, funded with our taxes, simply go elsewhere to get its students?”
Because it is doing what we forced it to do? Which was to act more like a business? read more at the ST: